The ending of Gordon Brown's premiership and 13 years of Labour rule followed the collapse of last-ditch efforts to forge a progressive government of Labour and the Lib Dems, provoking bitter recriminations on both sides over how Clegg's party arrived at the decision to decide to prop up a Tory government on what will be a five year fixed term.
He says in terms of detailed policy announcements "of course you don't do that two years before the election, because of five-year fixed term parliaments we're still essentially in mid-term".
For example, at 65 per cent loan to value, Virgin Money is offering a five-year fix at 2.37 per cent with a £995 product fee; for a shorter-term, 65 per cent LTV deal, Norwich and Peterborough Building Society is offering three years fixed at 1.88 per cent with a £195 fee.
Market Harborough building society is the most competitive for two-year fixed rates on remortgages, at 60 per cent loan-to-value (LTV), while Principality building society's five- year fix at 80 per cent LTV is the best bet over that term.
A Chief of Staff is appointed to serve a fixed term of four years, and few indeed of the thirty-four generalsenioror to Marshall in 1939 had four years left before retirement.
Only one in five had ever heard of income drawdown or fixed term annuities.
Andrew Motion was the first British poet laureate to serve a fixed term, of 10 years (1999 2009).
In those days we did not have fixed term parliaments, the Prime Minister called an election after three and a half years or four years if they wanted, so it was very difficult to say what a full term was.
The chief whip said the prime minister had made a statement of the "bleedin' obvious" but then suggested it was right for him to outline a timeframe for departure because US presidents serve fixed terms of four years, with a ban on a third term.
In its report, the commission argues that the panel's members should serve fixed terms of four years rather than at the pleasure of the mayor and borough presidents who appoint them, and that the chancellor should serve as an ex officio member rather than as chairman of the panel.
If you're a first-time buyer, your choice of mortgages is normally quite narrow, usually restricted to variable rate or fixed terms of just two or three years.
